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Downloading eLua

You have a few options for downloading eLua:

download a binary eLua image for the
platform of your choice. Binary images are provided with
each official release. This is generally the best option
if you have a board that’s officially supported by
eLua (see here for details) and you want to
have eLua up and running on your board
as quickly as possible.

download the source code to build eLua
yourself. You can either download the source code of an
official release or get the "bleeding edge" version from
the Git repository.
Download the source code instead of a binary image if you
need to make adjustments to the source code to support
your board, or if you want to customize the
eLua image, or if you simply want to
take a look at what happens behind the
eLua
# prompt.

Binary images

Binary images of eLua can be built for our latest official release and development sources using our web builder service.

If you need a customized binary image for an already
supported platform (for example with an autorun program, with
some code of yours in the file system, with your LAN IP
settings) and you have difficulty with the builder service or the instructions for
building eLua didn’t work for you, feel
free to ask for one in our
discussion list explaining what you need.

Source code

If all you want is to take a quick peek at
eLua's source code, but you don’t need to
download it, it’s probably enough to use the GitHub web interface. You
can browse through the complete source of
eLua using this method.
If you need to download the source code of
eLua you can either: